【導(dǎo)讀】專業(yè)：信息管理與信息系統(tǒng)2001級(jí)3班

　　

【正文】 must be very careful to protect their data, its integrity and privacy, and the way it is used. While technology is presumed to increase employment in general, those workers displaced by technology must be retrained. They must learn new skills to find a new position or to operate the technology that now performs their old job. Governments have long been involved in collecting large amounts of data. Technology has enabled them to collect and operate on this data more efficiently. Lower prices, improved capabilities, and more userfriendly features have made technology available to many more people. An important social issue is providing access to technology for everyone. Increasing dependence on technology brings new issues and risks to an organization and a society. These include data control issues from workers, consultants, and business partners. Ways to minimize data threats include training, oversight mittees, audits, and the separation of duties. Threats also e from the outside. These can be minimized by software and hardware techniques including the encryption of data, dialback modems or access controls. Working in today’s technological environment brings business ethics increasingly to the forefront, not only for panies as a whole, but also for individual workers. People’s lives can be impacted by technology mishaps such as inaccurate data, the abuse of information, or defective or poorly designed software or hardware. Effect of technology on the privacy of individuals the ease with which information regarding individuals can be acquired is astonishing. Basic and statistical data can be purchased from sources such as the government, universities, clubs, mailorder firms, and the internet. Laws in the united states protecting what private organizations can do with data makes data even more available. In the federal government, strict laws regulate what can and cannot be divulged. Employee privacy is another issue. Computers can be used to monitor employees and what they do while they are working on the puter. Some employers read their employees’ electronic mail or evaluate their performance using the puter. Ways to protect yourself include asking the pany not to distribute your personal to give. You can also ask the pany not to distribute you personal data, why they need the data, and what data are optional to give. You can also ask the pany not to distribute your personal data. You have the right to check any data that refers to you and to ask to have it changed if you feel the data is inaccurate. Some people find the increased use of technology dehumanizing, since panies can know increasing amounts of information about their employees and their work habits. Jobs it is generally believed that technology increases jobs overall and improves the standard of living. How ever , as technology replaces more jobs of less skilled workers, those workers will have a more difficult time finding other jobs unless they are retrained. The new jobs provided by technology tend to be better paying, physically safer, and less repetitive. To remain petitive, everyone must continuously learn new skills to stay ahead in a rapidly changing marketplace. It is important to carefully study technology trends to predict correctly in which skills to invest for the future. Technology offers people with disabilities the opportunity to work in ways never previously thought possible. Telemuting as the percentage of service versus manufacturing jobs increase., the opportunities to telemute, or work from home, increase. Service jobs tend to be less dependent on a worker’s physical location. Cities with long mute times such as New York are experimenting with telemuting. The organization gains because of decrease costs for office space and flexibility in hiring additional workers. Evaluating and managing telemuting employees are difficult tasks, however, the worker gains the time and expense of muting to work, but loses because of a loss of personal contact, decreased motivation, and a home environment that can be more fortable and more distracting.Education the effects of technology on education have not been as marked as in other areas of society. Some Internet teaching is occurring, but this phenomenon is not widespread due to the high cost of development and lack of interaction. problems with using technology to educate include its expense, the fact that developing lessons through technology is time intensive, and the limited evidence that teaching through technology is the same or better than traditional methods.Governments while governments can be slow to use new technology due to limited budgets, long procurement cycles, and smaller IS staffs, there is much to gain from applying technology. The federal government has used the Internet and bulletin board systems to provide information and responses, including the filing of tax forms. Politicians are likely to use more technology during campaigns to target voters, write letters, solicit contributions, and announce meetings.Access to technology the gap between the haves and the havenots can easily be widened through the abuse of technology. This occurs most readily through the control of access to technology. Many suggest that as panies get new hardware and software, the old equipment should be donated to poor schools or poor countries. although this technology might be pletely outdated, the recipients might other hand, rapid advances in technology and decreasing costs of hardware sometimes cost the nonprofit organization more than the outdated equipment is worth.